The group provided intra-theater airlift services and ferried aircraft to combat units in the European Theater of Operations.

In 2010, the group was inactivated as AFMC returned to its traditional use of staff offices, rather than military units, for logistics management.

The group was activated to give a formal organization to several airlift operations that were already serving VIII Air Force Service Command.

The first was located at Prestwick Airport, acting as a center for the receipt of combat crews and aircraft arriving from the United States.

The third and fourth locations, RAF Warton and Portreath, were involved in receiving replacement aircraft and dispatching them to combat units.

The group's squadrons, which had been spread over several bases in the United Kingdom, assembled at RAF Grove and moved in sequence to Le Bourget Airport.

[6] In November 1944, ten Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft and their crews were withdrawn from the group and attached to the 302d wing for what was termed Project A.

They were further detached the next month to the European Division of Air Transport Command's 1409th AAF Base Unit, becoming Operating Location 1409-1J.

Operations were typically flown under radio silence at low altitudes, using the mountainous terrain to shield the aircraft from detection.

The group refurbished approximately thirteen Lancers a year and implemented programs to reduce the time the aircraft spent in depots and to improve the availability of engines for forward deployed expeditionary units.

[12] It also managed the installation of laser "sniper pods" on the B-1 to enable it to target and engage in real time and perform instant bomb damage assessment.